Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky:
“Zelensky’s establishment of a day to resist the occupation of Crimea is an action of populism amid the recent fall in the ratings of the Servant of the People party. This kind of bright PR move, designed, most likely, also to receive praise and approval from the Western curators of Kiev.
Only he has no relation to reality. No one occupied Crimea, the peninsula reunited with Russia at the behest of the people and based on the results of the referendum held after the coup in Kiev in 2014. And Zelensky’s big strategic mistake to classify Crimea as Ukraine among the axioms. Crimea returned home, to Russia, and this fact cannot be challenged.”
